NEWS: GameEx 7.72

[Tom Speirs]

11th March, 2007 - GameEx 7.72

Full video and DVD support in Vista

Volume control working in Vista

Windowed mode in Vista Aero is enhanced and no longer shuts down Aero

Cosmetic enhancments to the user interface when showing game info header, it fades.

Title toolbar auto scrolls out and hides with V1 themes when mouse not active, when set to always show

Fixes list issues after selecting play random videos

Fixes issue with not able to disable screensaver in some cases

Create snap on thread feature has been removed

New theme included "Media Center" and is the default

When playing a video or DVD windows screensaver is disabled

Full support for HTML apps in Vista

More responsive when playing videos or dvd's

The MAME list update is much more system friendly, and will allow you to do other things on your PC while its running, and no black screen when in full screen and alt tabbing out

New setting to make the menu text same size as the game text. NOTE: This is on by default so will affect all themes. To turn off in theme.ini use MenuTextSameSize=False.

New theme.ini setting GradientTitleFont=True. And LowerCaseTitleFont. Look at the new Media Center theme for example

[headkaze]

Hi Tom thanks for the release.

This version seems to cause layout issues with my theme. I've attached a screenshot so you can see what I mean.

Also have you removed 3d alpha blend effect? I really liked that effect but it seems to have been removed. Also any chance of making the clock animation an option to turn off?

And one last note, you are including an old version of the Theme Editor the latest is 1.76.

[Crystal Pistol]

Tom: 7.73 is erroring out after exiting out of mame here is the log...Thanks `

Sorry for the short post got little ones in tow at the cab..thanks allot for the great work

log.txt

[Tom Speirs]

Sorry folks. guess I released this too soon. Ive put 7.71 back up.

[Dav1d]

Tom, you rock. This is the reason I registered. Everyone, please send money to Tom. We need more people like him in this world.

I doubt I'll be getting Vista for at least another year but it's nice to know that my favourite app of all-time will be well supported by then.

Keep up the great work.

[Adultery]

This works awesome on my Vista machine! You don't even know how handy the muting of emulators in screensaver mode is to me. Awesome work as usual Tom and thanks for the immediate Vista support! I have a ton of apps that haven't even bothered to update yet.

*EDIT* I read the previous post and downgraded. Now I feel teased. Hehe! Can't wait for the big update!

[Tom Speirs]

Thanks a lot for the encouragment guys. Its been a hell of a lot of work to get Vista working well. Your comments make it all worthwhile. Ill get the release back up shortly. I rolled back to the earlier version until I just fix a few things for folks who arnt running Vista

[iano]

  TSpeirs said:

Thanks a lot for the encouragment guys. Its been a hell of a lot of work to get Vista working well. Your comments make it all worthwhile. Ill get the release back up shortly. I rolled back to the earlier version until I just fix a few things for folks who arnt running Vista

Love the Media Center Theme and the way the Title Toolbar scrolls out !

Thanks,

iano.